Featuring: SPO Women’s Choir with the Yangtze River Performing Arts Choir, Yiping Chao, Conductor and Soprano; SPO Woodwind Quintet, Ted Runcie, Conductor; Kevin Zi-Xiao He, Shakuhachi; David Debono, Piano

Program:

*Ted Runcie: Anansi’s Odyssey, for Narrator and Woodwind Quintet  (SPO Commission and Premiere) 

*Elizabeth Raum:  King Lear Fantasy, for Woodwind Quintet

 *Chris Meyer: New Work for Woodwind Quintet (SPO Commission and Premiere) 

 *Kevin Zi-Xiao He: Träumerei,  for Shakuhachi and Piano (SPO Commission and Premiere) 

 Traditional Chinese Music for Soprano or Choir and Piano (Arranged by Kevin Zi-Xiao He and *Eugene He) 

•  Descendants of the Dragon, for Women’s Choir and Piano          
•   So Many People in This World, for Women’s Choir and Piano 
•  Slow Colored Lantern Song, for Women’s Choir and Piano 
•  How Can I Rid My Mind of Her, for Soprano Solo and Piano 
•  Song of Red Bean, for Soprano Solo and Piano 

* Canadian Composer